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December 18, 2020 3:00pm by Graeme McMillan Courtesy of Sloane Leong/John Paul Leon/Adrian Tomine From heartbroken Canadian cartoonists to Superman punching racists, this year's top releases had a lot to say about the world we've been living in over the last twelve months. It’s been a rough year for the comics industry, with the COVID pandemic forcing many stores to go into temporary shutdown (and, sadly, some stores to close permanently). Publishers, too, were affected, with some halting production and others pulling back on plans — including previously scheduled projects — as the ind...

On the surface, comics faced no more hurdles in 2020 than any other retail offering. As isolated people around the world turned to familiar sources of entertainment, distraction, and solace, comics were there for them, from nonfiction graphic novels to the latest dimension hopping adventures of eternally entangled superhero continuity. Even as COVID-19 safety measures began to set new boundaries on everyday life, the American comics industry seemed handily poised to keep making comics. The life of a freelance comics creator is already pretty, shall we say, “socially distanced.” Graphic n...

‘Kent State’ On Top of PW’s 2020 Graphic Novel Critics Poll By PW Staff | Released in September during the 50th anniversary year of the 1970 tragedy, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Abrams ComicArts) by veteran comics journalist Derf Backderf garnered the majority of votes in PW’s annual Graphic Novel Critic’s Poll, receiving eight votes from a panel of 14 comics critics. In this deeply researched work, Backderf, best known for his Eisner-nominated 2012 graphic nonfiction work My Friend Dahmer, reconstructs the lives and last days of the student activist...

$9 million. i guess the customs officials are wrestlers. a state champion forfeited his march because he didn't want to fight a girl. apparently it's a religious thing. the teenager's pentecostal church forbids men and women from touching in a familiar way so there she is, cassy herkelman, she won that title but was defeated in the quarterfinals. the kid who forfeited, everybody was expecting him to go all the way. hon how it happens, but showers he gets goldfish to swim in sync. this is china but some animal activists say whatever this is is, it's abusive. millions of people came to see t...